Day 1308

For today's walk, I joined Dan Fleischer for a brief stretch of his "Manhattan thru-hike". Dan is an experienced long-distance hiker from Portland, Oregon, and he decided to spend his three-week summer vacation walking every street on the island of Manhattan. During his trek, he refrained from using any form of transportation other than walking, heading out each morning on foot to get to his starting point and returning home at night the same way. (He rented three places in different parts of Manhattan for a week each, which helped reduce the amount of back-and-forth walking he had to do each morning and evening.) Hoofing it more than 30 miles per day — and probably closer to 35 — he covered every street on the island in a single continuous trail of footsteps, hence the "thru-hike" part of the name.

Day 1308

I'm walking every street in New York City.

This is the counterpoint to my walk across the US. Instead of seeing a million places for just a minute each, I'm going to spend a million minutes exploring just one place. By the time I finish walking every block of every street in all five boroughs, I'll have traveled more than 8,000 miles on foot — all within a single city. Details!

Your donations allow me to keep walking full-time. If you think what I'm doing is valuable and you'd like to offer some support, I would be very grateful. On the other hand, if you think I'm a worthless bum, feel free to email me and tell me to get a job, bozo. Both are excellent options!